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by wpollock 2y ago
If such a fork happens, I propose the new name be either J-8 or L-10.
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by wpollock 2y ago
You're probably right. It definitely was teco and likely 1970ish.
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by wpollock 2y ago
I remember using an ed-like editor on a Honeywell timeshare system in the 1960s, over a Teltype ASR-33. I don't remember much except you invoked it using "make <filename>" to create a new file. And if you typed "
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by wpollock 2y ago
While I agree with you, note those directions may not be wrong. Many modern electronic devices do not completely power down when you turn them "off". Unplugging does (once the capacitors drain) but not necessarily using the powe
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by wpollock 2y ago
I may be missing something, but the most obvious improvement would be to eliminate duplicate input. A million integers in the range of 1 to 100,000 (the prompt doesn't specify if the range is inclusive or exclusive) means that at least
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by wpollock 2y ago
How to tell a grizzly bear from a brown bear in the wild is similar. Climb a tree to try to escape the bear. Then: If it climbs the tree you are on to kill you, it's a brown bear. If it knocks the tree over to kill you, it's a
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by wpollock 2y ago
You're right about Bell-LaPadula, but note that model isn't used as much as the Biba model, the basis of Windows UAP. Even "solved" problems tend to evolve or get superceded over time; nothing seems to stay solved for l
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by wpollock 2y ago
Isn't this issue caused by having multiple unrelated APIs in a single package? If they were in different crates, a breaking change on one would not affect users of the others.
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by wpollock 2y ago
You're not wrong, but there are cases where "absolute" performance matters. For example, when your app must meet a performance SLA.
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by wpollock 2y ago
>Basically I'm currently pretty much sure that it's impossible to "make invalid states unrepresentable" using a classical relational model. But that's what 9th NF is for! :-)
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by wpollock 2y ago
I suppose I don't know for sure. But normal forms prevent false data creation and data loss, and I know their db was not normalized from conversations with their IT support, so it's a pretty good guess.
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by wpollock 2y ago
It was and is still common to have non experts design databases. And in many cases, normal form doesn't make sense. Tables with hundreds or thousands of columns are commonly the best solution. What is rarely stressed about NF is tha
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by wpollock 2y ago
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by wpollock 2y ago
This is how PEs should be certified. Sadly, licensure of PEs varies by state. In Florida, the title of "software engineer" requires a license. To obtain the license, you only need to pass the national engineering (I forgot the
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by wpollock 2y ago
The original TeleTypes sent ASCII on key press. The control key modifier merely added a bit to the other key pressed. (Except for the Break key.) This has nothing to do with telegraph systems. TECHNICAL BACKGROUND FOR THE CURIOUS A modern
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by wpollock 2y ago
I agree, although he missed one of the puns. In that day, even young children were taught latin. The speech with "O Mouse" comes from the lesson on conjugation which often used "am" (love): amo, amus, amat, amamus, amat
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by wpollock 2y ago
When the lookup key is a hash, there's no locality over the megabytes of the table. So don't all the extra memory accesses to support dedup affect the L1 and L2 caches? Has anyone at OpenZFS measured that? It also occurs to me th
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by wpollock 2y ago
A MOV and an INC, as opposed to just the MOV.
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by wpollock 2y ago
The PDP-11 that C originally targeted had address modes to support the stack. Pre-increment and post-decrement therefore did not require a separate instruction; they were free. After the PDP-11 went the way of the dodo, both forms took a
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by wpollock 2y ago
I'm probably naive, but I see another way forward. If all the t64 binaries are static linked, they have no danger of mixing abis. After 2038, all the t32 code is broken anyway so there's no additional risk for going back to d
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by wpollock 2y ago
Maybe on purpose. Most print encyclopedias included small typos and small fake articles, so they could prove plagiarism if needed. (I use that same excuse to explain all my published errors:-)
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by wpollock 2y ago
The answer is handicap hang tags, like those used in cars, but worn as earrings. <wink>
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by wpollock 2y ago
I worry that the raw numbers here are misleading. I would have preferred to see driver deaths per model, only for those vehicles involved in a front end collision.
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by wpollock 2y ago
In the bygone days of ctags, C function definitions included a space before opening parenthesis, while function calls never had that space. I have a hard time remembering that modern coding styles never have that space and my IDE complains
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by wpollock 2y ago
One of the humorists I worked with at Bell Labs in the 1980s would always report error code 13 as the error when no more specific error code was available. When one looked that up in the man page, it just said "you are unlucky".
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by wpollock 2y ago
Used to do this in C decades ago. Worked on Unix but I doubt it works on Linux today, unless you disable memory overcommit completely.
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by wpollock 2y ago
Hmm. "Life finds a way."
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by wpollock 2y ago
Still learning rust. What's the unwrap() for in the last line of the consumer code: stdout().write(output).unwrap(); Thanks.
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by wpollock 2y ago
On top of that, libraries can be linked by their SONAME and not the file name. (This is rarely done however.)
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by wpollock 2y ago
This reminds me of long ago when Usenet users were afraid of the NSA eavesdropping. In order to overwhelm them folks would include likely search terms in every post, such as nuclear or assassinate.

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